could anyone please be able to give australian album chart positions for the following artists : the beatles, the beach boys, the rolling stones, the who, bob dylan, the byrds, pink floyd and led zeppelin.

Well here's a new thread where people can ask for pre June-1988 album information... and to start it all off....

The first album charts were started in Australia in the early 60's. 3XY (Melb), 2CA (Canberra) and 2UE (Syd) had an occasional monthly chart, but these were irregular at best. In 1965 2UE started putting a small Top 5 selling LP (Long Player) chart on the weekly Top 40 countdown, as too did 6PR (Perth) and 5AD (Adel.), so David Kent has combined all of this information, and when later states put their information on too, it became a national album charts. So any albums that were released prior to 1965 won't appear here unless they re-charted later. So I'll start off with the first group to appear at No.1 on the National Album Charts...

27-Dec-69*HP-01*WI-39 - Led Zeppelin II (5 weeks at No.1)11-May-70*HP-12*WI-03 - Led Zeppelin21-Dec-70*HP-01*WI-28 - Led Zeppelin III (4 weeks at No.1)20-Dec-71*HP-02*WI-40 - Led Zeppelin IV23-Apr-73*HP-01*WI-40 - Houses of the Holy (3 weeks at No.1)03-Mar-75*HP-02*WI-42 - Physical Graffiti05-Apr-76*HP-04*WI-20 - Presence01-Nov-76*HP-08*WI-18 - The Song Remains the Same S'Track27-Aug-79*HP-03*WI-23 - In Through the Out Door06-Dec-82*HP-09*WI-14 - Codathen came the "Remasters" Collections in 1990.

your the best bulion, thanks again. i must say i was suprised to see the beach boys 60's albums never charted here and bob dylan's two classics from 1965 didn't either. i assume this had alot to do with what was being played or not being played on australian radio at the time?

With only a few stations around Australia contributing towards an albums chart, it was lucky that anything made it in at all. A Top 10 was used mostly throughout the 60's, and with Beatles, Herb Alpert and Soundtracks taking up most places, it was hard for much else to get in there.So things like Beach Boys, Dylan and many other classic albums we know did not make it because of this.In fact there were only 22 No.1 albums during the 1965-1969 period, and considering we have around that many per year now, shows you how slow things were back then.It wasn't until the 1970's that the album charts expanded initially into a Top 20, and by 1972 a Top 40, then a Top 100 by the mid 70's.

01-Mar-76*HP-07*WI-20 - Love to Love You Baby10-May-76*HP-32*WI-26 - A Love Trilogy04-July-77*HP-04*WI-29 - I Remember Yesterday19-Dec-77*HP-44*WI-18 - Once Upon a Time09-Oct-78*HP-27*WI-31 - Live and More28-May-79*HP-06*WI-26 - Bad Girls12-Nov-79*HP-16*WI-22 - On the Radio: Greatest Hits 1 & 210-Nov-80*HP-18*WI-12 - The Wanderer16-Aug-82*HP-45*WI-16 - Donna Summer30-May-83*HP-16*WI-17 - Greatest Hits Volume 1 & 201-Aug-83*HP-21*WI-14 - She Works Hard for the Money15-Oct-84*HP-91*IW-01 - Cats Without Claws28-Aug-89*HP-95*WI-06 - Another Place and Time

01-July-67*HP-03*WI-34 - The Monkees22-July-67*HP-04*WI-15 - More of The Monkees14-Sep-68*HP-05*WI-07 - The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees18-Oct-76*HP-55*WI-29 - The Monkees Greatest Hits29-Oct-79*HP-37*WI-16 - MonkeeMania07-July-80*HP-50*WI-08 - Greatest Hits13-Oct-86*HP-35*WI-20 - Then and Now: The Best ofthen came "The Collection" in 1992.

The Mamas and The Papas:15-July-67*HP-16*WI-01 - The Mamas & The Papas Deliver04-May-68*HP-08W*I-10 - Farewell to the First Golden Era23-Nov-68*HP-07*WI-02 - The Papas and The Mamas25-May-70*HP-13*WI-05 - 16 of Their Greatest Hits

In mid-1974, David Kent (a long time chart collector and collator) started publishing the Kent Music Report, which later became the Australian Music Report (AMR). ARIA started using David's chart in mid01983, then five years after the contract finished, that's when ARIA went and did their own charts.Prior to 1974, yes there were the Go-Set charts, which started in early 1966. Here's a link to look at the history of those charts...

So from 1966 to 1974 Go-Set did their charts, but one thing of note with their charts, when they added up the information for each state, they didn't take into account the different population in each city, they just gave everything the same amount of points, which doesn't give a proper balance to the charts. This means that a No.1 in Perth or Tasmania would have equal amount of points to a Melbourne or Sydney chart-topper.So that's why David Kent has gone back and re-calculated the entire charts from 1956 to 1974, plus he also found all of the Top 20 charts from 1940 to 1956 (I've only been able to go back as far as 1950 myself), and then put them all in his chart books.

All expect for Ringo had a No.1 album (he climbed as high as No.2) But they ALL did have No.1 solo singles.George was the first to have a No.1 albumPaul was the first to release an album, although it didn't chart. He did the soundtrack for a film in 1968.

Country Joe McDonald & The Fish:16-Nov-70*HP-34*WI-01 - C.J. FishCountry Joe McDonald also had two solo singles, but no solo albums charted in Australia29-Mar-71*HP-60*WI-07 - I Feel Like I'm Fixin'-to-Die Rag22-Mar-76*HP-56*WI-09 - Breakfast for Two

groovy i'm glad to see some of my favourite artists chart here. one last request, though i doubt any of these artists charted but anyway..traffic, the pretty things, donavan, love/arthur lee and the incredible string band.thanx.

25-May-70*HP-12*WI-03 - The Best of Traffic09-Nov-70*HP-14*WI-05 - John Barleycorn Must Die20-Dec-71*HP-49*WI-03 - Welcome Back to the Canteen17-Apr-72*HP-38*WI-08 - Low Spark of High Heeled Boys14-May-73*HP-35*WI-10 - Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory13-May-74*HP-51*WI-03 - On the Road10-Feb-75*HP-43*WI-09 - When the Eagle Flies

hi, i notice a few listings above for some punk acts; is there a chance of getting chart postions for these punk artists. The Ramones, Television, The Stooges, Iggy Pop, New York Dolls and Patti Smith.

awesome to see television's marquee moon scraped into the charts!!! same goes for patti's horses and iggy's the idiot, true, a shame the stooges and the Dolls didn't chart, anyway did these punks chart Suicide, Wire, Ian Dury & The Blockheads, Joy Division, Public Image Limited and The Dead Kennedy's?

thanks again bulion i'm absolutely mistified as to how both james brown and curtis mayfield never placed an album in the oz charts, and how miles davis's "bitches brew" never charted either!!! anyway not to worry, how did these other soul/funk artists fair: funkadelic, parliment, issac hayes,stevie wonder and barry white.

13-Sep-69*HP-02*WI-21 - Johnny Cash at San Quentin27-Apr-70*HP-14*WI-04 - Johnny Cash 197025-May-70*HP-09*WI-05 - Hello I'm Johnny Cash07-Sep-70*HP-22*WI-01 - The World of Johnny Cash09-Apr-73*HP-62*WI-02 - Any Old Wind That Blows28-Mar-77*HP-37*WI-08 - The Best of Johnny Cash22-Jun-81*HP-54*WI-10 - The Baron15-July-85*HP-23*WI-30 - The Highwaymen (with Other Acts)then there was "The Highwaymen 2" in 1991

12-Feb-79*HP-77*WI-05 - Public Image08-Jun-81*HP-94*WI-07 - The Flowers of Romance28-Nov-83*HP-92*WI-03 - Live in Tokyo24-Mar-86*HP-59*WI-08 - Album / Cassette24-July-89*HP-70*WI-10 - 9** the 'Album' / 'Cassette' album was called that as it was only named after what it was brought as. If you bought the vinyl album, it was called 'Album'. If you bought the cassette version, it was called 'Cassette'.

08-Oct-73*HP-39*WI-10 - I've Got So Much to Give08-Apr-74*HP-09*WI-31 - Stone Gon'14-Oct-74*HP-28*WI-23 - Can't Get Enough12-May-75*HP-54*WI-10 - Just Another Way to Say I Love You15-Dec-75*HP-38*WI-25 - Barry White Greatest Hits29-Mar-76*HP-75*WI-06 - Let the Music Play11-Dec-78*HP-97*WI-02 - The Manthen there was "The Barry White Collection" in March 1991.

25-Feb-80*HP-06*WI-29 - The Pretenders31-Aug-81*HP-18*WI-16 - The Pretenders II30-Jan-84*HP-18*WI-23 - Learning to Crawl17-Nov-86*HP-12*WI-46 - Get Close30-Nov-87*HP-19*WI-19 - The Singlesthen there was the June 1990 album "Packed".

30-July-79*HP-93*WI-04 - Go 217-Sep-79*HP-40*WI-09 - Drums and Wires15-Sep-80*HP-27*WI-12 - Black Sea29-Mar-82*HP-14*WI-18 - English Settlement12-Nov-84*HP-96*WI-02 - The Big Expressthen they had their next album "Nonsuch" in May 1992.

With the recent mass return of AC/DC album to the charts, here are their previous efforts as requested by Boof

AC/DC:

10-Mar-75*HP-14*WI-39 - High Voltage05-Jan-76*HP-02*WI-30 - T.N.T.04-Oct-76*HP-05*WI-24 - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap04-Apr-77*HP-19*WI-20 - Let There Be Rock26-Jun-78*HP-22*WI-16 - Powerage11-Dec-78*HP-37*WI-15 - If You Want Blood You've Got it15-Oct-79*HP-13*WI-15 - Highway to Hell01-Sep-80*HP-01*WI-74 - Back in Black (1 week in 1981)14-Dec-81*HP-03*WI-22 - For Those About to Rock We Salute You05-Sep-83*HP-03*WI-15 - Flick of the Switch29-July-85*HP-04*WI-21 - Fly on the Wall30-Jun-86*HP-04*WI-36 - Who Made Who01-Feb-88*HP-02*WI-18 - Blow Up Your Videothen there was "The Razors Edge" in October 1990.

31-May-82*HP-08WI-40 - The Number of the Beast06-Jun-83*HP-17*WI-14 - Piece of Mind01-Oct-84*HP-26*WI-11 - Powerslave18-Nov-85*HP-31*WI-12 - Live After Death20-Oct-86*HP-23*WI-12 - Somewhere in Time25-Apr-88*HP-19*WI-12 - Seventh Son of a Seventh Sonthen came their Oct 1990 album "No Prayer for the Dying".

13-Oct-75*HP-07*WI-40 - Born to Run26-Jun-78*HP-09*WI-29 - Darkness on the Edge of Town20-Oct-80*HP-08*WI-44 - The River25-Oct-82*HP-08*WI-21 - Nebraska18-Jun-84*HP-01*WI-97 - Born in the USA (8 weeks at No.1)15-Apr-85*HP-60*WI-05 - The Wild, The Innocent and the E-Street Shuffle 15-Apr-85*HP-71*WI-05 - Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.24-Nov-86*HP-03*WI-15 - Live 1975-198526-Oct-87*HP-05*WI-28 - Tunnel of Lovethen came his two April 1992 albums "Lucky Town" & "Human Touch"

The two albums listed after Born in the USA were older albums that entered the charts for the first time in 1985. This was also due to his Australian tour in April 1985.

14-Oct-74*HP-01*WI-56 - Living in the 70's (16 weeks at No.1)07-July-75*HP-01*WI-29 - Ego is Not a Dirty Word (11 weeks)30-Aug-76*HP-03*WI-19 - Straight in a Gay Gay World12-Sep-77*HP-49*WI-11 - The Skyhooks Tapes03-Apr-78*HP-07*WI-18 - Guilty Until Proven Insane11-Dec-78*HP-84*WI-04 - Live! Be in it07-Jan-80*HP-09*WI-31 - The Best of Skyhooks12-May-80*HP-64*WI-05 - Hot for the Orient21-Nov-83*HP-19*WI-16 - Live in the 80's29-Oct-84*HP-32*WI-08 - Living in the 70's (Commemorative Coloured Vinyl Edition)then there was their next collection in Nov 1990, "The Latest and Greatest".

17-May-82*HP-25*WI-29 - Music from 'Monkey Grip'24-Jan-83*HP-05*WI-33 - Desperate11-Nov-85*HP-04*WI-32 - What a Life09-May-88*HP-11*WI-23 - Temperamentalthen there was their self-titled Feb 1991 album.

27-Nov-78*HP-43*WI-24 - Midnight Oil29-Oct-79*HP-36*WI-43 - Head Injuries30-Nov-81*HP-12*WI-31 - Place Without a Postcard29-Nov-82*HP-03*WI-171- 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,129-Oct-84*HP-01*WI-63 - Red Sails in the Sunset (4 weeks)24-Aug-87*HP-01*WI-50 - Diesel and Dust (6 weeks at No.1)then they had their March 1990 album "Blue Sky Mining"

There are only three bands with X in their title that have charted in Australia pre-1989. They are XL Capris (Aussie group), X-Ray Spex (also an Aussie group) and the English guys XTC. So sorry, no 'X' album (or even singles) charted in Australia.

i find it such a great shame that so many magnificant albums from the 60's just didn't chart!!! i realize for a period in the 60's we only had a top 10, but those soundtracks(that dominated) are so shit in comparison with the lps being produced around that time. aussies must have had very deaf ears during the 60's. are you able to shed more light on why this is the case?cheers.

Unfortunately, the album was looked on as a novelty thing in the 60's for some record companies, who used it as a tool for putting a collection of an artists songs together.But also the cost of an album during that time was beyond the regular weekly budget, so that's why some companies put out cheaper albums of big hits done by orchestra's or covers versions.But in the mid 60's when The Beatles, Beach Boys and Rolling Stones came along, they had albums that were full of unknown and self-penned songs, stuff that we hadn't heard here before like blues music (on masse that is) ala Rolling Stones and early Beatles and they helped start a bigger market.It wasn't until the early 70's that Rock-God bands like Led Zeppelin and the like made you have to buy the album to listen to the songs you liked, as radio was very pop-orientated (it was the bubble-gum period) and wouldn't play a lot of the harder edged music.When Bowie and T-Rex came along in 71 & 72, they had married the two styles together, thus they had big albums sales, whilst the rock was still selling well (it didn't decline until Disco in the late 70's), it still sold none-the-less.Skyhooks had a huge selling album because more than half of the album had tracks that were banned to be played on radio (deemed too rude at the time), so people HAD to go out and buy it, plus people were getting paid more by this time too.

So I too think it's a shame that these albums didn't make it into the charts, but don't worry, I know people who did buy them at the time, and still have them in their collections, so just because they didn't chart, doesn't mean that people weren't buyin' em.

sorry for the late reply been on holidays, anyway thanks a million bulion, that information above answers my question beautifully. what an incredible journey the ALBUM's had, to become what it is today in australia. a must have item!!! cheers once again, joe

thanks bulion the bee gees did well in the 60's ( one of the home land favourites i imagine?). another request if possible; actually this one's from my dad, he won't stop naggin' me so please..... dr.hook and the medicine band. cheers again.

G'day i'm a big fan of Daddy Cool, it would be great if you could post thier album postions. Also i've heard that australia had to adjust thier album certifications(gold,platium etc.) because Daddy Cool's first lp "Daddy Who?... Daddy Cool" sold so many records, is this true???

Culture Club:13-Dec-82*HP-12*WI-71 - Kissing to Be Clever24-Oct-83*HP-01*WI-68 - Colour By Numbers (7 weeks at No.1)12-Nov-84*HP-02*WI-16 - Waking Up with the House on Fire05-May-86*HP-25*WI-14 - From Luxury to Heartache25-May-87*HP-62*WI-05 - This Time

Madonna:16-Apr-84*HP-10*WI-81 - Madonna03-Dec-84*HP-02*WI-72 - Like a Virgin21-July-86*HP-01*WI-78 - True Blue (2 weeks at No.1)07-Dec-87*HP-13*WI-15 - You Can Dance (Remixes)then came "Like a Prayer" in 1989*you can also find all of her info in the "Madonna" thread.

Jinx, Elvis had to wait until RCA took all of his stock off the market in 2003 to gain a No.1 album. When "A Little Less Conversation" was at No.1, the record company had NO Elvis titles available in Australia to order (I was working in music retail at the time), and that's how it helped to get "30 No.1's" to the top of the charts, because people were starved for his material at that time.

16-July-66*HP-04*WI-13 - Animalisms10-Sep-66*HP-03*WI-40 - The Most of The Animals08-Jun-68*HP-08*WI-03 - The Best of Volume 229-Mar-69*HP-14*WI-02 - Love is24-Oct-77*HP-71*WI-05 - Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted30-Nov-81*HP-67*WI-04 - Animal Tracks

Why doesn't everybody just buy the David Kent books for all of their chart queries rather than exposing bulion to the risk of being sued for breach of copyright. See the details of the books at www.austchartbook.com.au

spug don't take this the wrong way but worry about your own issues. i'm sure bulion knows what he's doing otherwise this forum wouldn't exist. and i'm sure many people enjoy looking through this forum, check out the amount of hits it's had in the short time it's been existant!!

g'day i'm wondering why ac/dc's new album didn't debut at no.#2 last week after one day sales(friday). they sold 7000 odd albums to metallica's 6000 odd. both metallica and kings of leon entered the charts with thier one day sales. are you able to shed some light on the situation or is aria riggin' the charts so they debut at no#1 this week?

Joe, it's up to the record companies and management of the band to say yes or no for putting an album in earlier than it's official release date. If Alberts or Sony BMG didn't want it to go in last week, and NOT make No.1 first week, then that's their choice, whereas Universal said go ahead for Metallica and RCA (thru Sony BMG) said yes to Kings of Leon.Maybe they wanted it to look like it had sold 3xplatinum in it's first week, when in fact it only sold 2.3xPlatinum (minus 7000 from your figure). It makes it looks more impressive that way.

Hi. I would be grateful if someone would list the chart positions for Sweet (The Sweet prior to 1974). I assume that your source for these positions is David Kent's "Australian Chart Book: 1970-1992". Is this correct?Many thanks in advance.

09-Jan-65*HP-04*WI-08 - Peter, Paul & Mary in Concert (on 1st chart)22-May-65*HP-03*WI-09 - A Song Will Rise13-Nov-65*HP-02*WI-05 - See What Tomorrow Brings13-May-67*HP-04*WI-08 - The Best of13-Apr-70*HP-10*WI-02 - Peter, Paul & Mary in Concert (R)27-Sep-82*HP-51*WI-05 - At Their Very Best

Hi again, now I'm looking for 1980s Australian band Spy vs Spy aka v. Spy v. Spy, both albums and singles, please. I've already got their later releases on ARIA charts by using the above search engine.

30-Aug-71*HP-56*WI-03 - The Point13-Mar-72*HP-02*WI-31 - Nilsson Schmilsson28-Aug-72*HP-13*WI-13 - Son of Schmilsson03-Sep-73*HP-19*WI-18 - A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night16-Sep-74*HP-45*WI-12 - Pussycats07-Mar-77*HP-11*WI-34 - The Best of Nilsson29-Sep-80*HP-33*WI-07 - Portrait of Nilsson30-Mar-81*HP-58*WI-06 - A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night (R)

Yanky; we only had Top 10 album charts from 1965 through to 1969, then a Top 20 for two years, then a 40 by 1971.

So early albums during the 60's didn't chart as there wasn't the market in Australia for them at the time (unlike America).

As you can see from Nancy Sinatra's stuff, she only had one album which reached No.6, and was in the Top 10 for a single week. So that's the major reason they (and others) didn't chart during the 60's.

It's not hard to get any pre-1989 info, it's just not on this site, and it's only in 2 books. David Kent has compiled 3 books, 1940-1969, 1970-1992 and 1993 - 2005, and ARIA used the AMR charts from 1983 to mid-1988, so the information will be the same.

www.austchartbook.com.au is his website, where you can see samples of the books and their layouts, and they are REALLY handy books to have.

20-Jun-77*HP-61*WI-16 - Kenny Rogers06-Mar-78*HP-68*WI-07 - Ten Years of Gold12-Feb-79*HP-21*WI-25 - The Gambler15-Oct-79*HP-04*WI-39 - The Best of26-Nov-79*HP-15*WI-36 - Kenny28-Jun-80*HP-31*WI-12 - Gideon24-Nov-80*HP-10*WI-38 - The Best of Volume 219-Oct-81*HP-44*WI-13 - Share Your Love04-Oct-82*HP-84*WI-03 - Love Will Turn You Around27-Dec-82*HP-62*WI-03 - Christmas Wishes (w/ Anne Murray)28-Mar-83*HP-49*WI-11 - We've Got Tonight31-Oct-83*HP-06*WI-36 - Eyes That See in the Dark13-Feb-84*HP-02*WI-26 - 20 Greatest Hits29-Oct-84*HP-30*WI-15 - What About Me?02-Dec-85*HP-69*WI-08 - The Heart of the Matter22-Dec-86*HP-11*WI-17 - Duets02-Feb-87*HP-60*WI-11 - They Don't Make Them Like They Used to.

07-July-75*HP-60*WI-10 - Encore of Golden Hits25-July-77*HP-40*WI-12 - Best of The Platters (Mercury)10-Oct-83*HP-60*WI-07 - Best of The Platters (K-Tel)02-Jun-86*HP-11*WI-16 - The Very Best of The Platters

15-Feb-82*HP-28*WI-16 - Speak and Spell"Construction Time Again" did not chart.05-May-86*HP-69*WI-09 - Black Celebration02-Nov-87*HP-60*WI-11 - Music for the Masses24-Apr-89*HP-77*WI-06 - Depeche Mode 101then came "Violator" in April 1990.

Yazoo:

04-Oct-82*HP-10*WI-16 - Upstairs at Eric's15-Aug-83*HP-21*WI-10 - You and me Both

Hi again,I've just checked for Farnham (both John and Johnny) and only find Whispering Jack on this page. I've already got his singles from your sister page 'CHART POSITIONS PRE 1989" and I've got the ARIA singles and albums from using the above search engine. Could you please provide all Farnham albums (include those with LRB if possible)?

Simple Minds:16-Nov-81*HP-31*WI-23 - Sons and Fascinations27-Sep-82*HP-08WI-22 - New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)30-Jan-84*HP-15*WI-17 - Sparkle in the Rain18-Nov-85*HP-07*WI-29 - Once Upon a Time03-Nov-86*HP-26*WI-11 - Alive and Kicking15-Jun-87*HP-13*WI-15 - Live in the City of Lightthen came "Street Fighting Years" in May 1989.

I've found australian chart info related to Erasure albums in another site ('Chorus' Peak Position: 93/Weeks On Chart:1; 'Cowboy' Peak Position: 74/Weeks On Chart:1).Please, could you confirm this info?Is this correct?

Finally; I'd like to complete their australian Chart History, so..........could you please tell me the chart statistics of Erasure's 'The Innocents' & 'Wild!'?

30-Nov-70*HP-16*WI-15 - Close to You15-Feb-71*HP-19*WI-06 - Ticket to Ride13-Sep-71*HP-16*WI-18 - Carpenters15-May-72*HP-03*WI-40 - Great Hits of The Carpenters09-Oct-72*HP-06*WI-33 - A Song for You20-Aug-73*HP-03*WI-43 - Now and Then01-Apr-74*HP-24*WI-18 - Great Hits of The Carpenters Vol.216-Jun-75*HP-21*WI-23 - Horizon28-Jun-76*HP-57*WI-07 - A Kind of Hush14-Nov-77*HP-48*WI-18 - Passage13-July-81*HP-50*WI-11 - Made in America27-Dec-82*HP-01*WI-23 - The Very Best of28-Nov-83*HP-54*WI-14 - Voice of the Heartthen there was "Their Greatest Hits" in Oct 1990.

30-Jan-65*HP-05*WI-02 - Greatest Hits Volume 208-Mar-69*HP-13*WI-01 - More of Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits16-Nov-81*HP-30*WI-21 - The Big O in Gold20-Oct-86*HP-87*WI-04 - The Roy Orbison Story21-Dec-87*HP-16*WI-38 - In Dreamsthen in late 1988 and early 1989 and whole heap of albums charted, which you'll be able to find via the search function at the top of the page.

Hi again, and thanks as always. I've got Machinations singles from the sister page. I've got ARIA single and album charting from search engine above. I would like AMR info on Machinations albums please.

12-May-76*HP-15*WI-80 - Crime of the Century22-Dec-75*HP-20*WI-51 - Crisis? What Crisis31-May-76*HP-53*WI-10 - Indelibly Stamped25-Apr-77*HP-05*WI-33 - Even in the Quietest Moments26-Mar-79*HP-01*WI-56 - Breakfast in America (6 weeks at 1)06-Oct-80*HP-03*WI-24 - Paris15-Nov-82*HP-02*WI-32 - Famous Last Words17-Jun-85*HP-22*WI-13 - Brother Where You Bound24-Nov-86*HP-09*WI-31 - The Autobiography of Supertramp16-Nov-87*HP-30*WI-10 - Free as a Bird

Roger Hodson solo:26-Nov-84*HP-23*WI-22 - In the Eye of the Storm07-Dec-87*HP-88*WI-02 - Hai Hai

hello again, just another question. i've notice a few lp's chart between 11-15 around the late 1966-early 1967 period, did the australian lp charts advance from a top 10 to a top 15 around this period and then advance into a top 20 circa 1968/69? cheers.

30-Mar-81*HP-44*WI-07 - Talk (& The Dots)22-Sep-86*HP-15*WI-39 - Gossip (& The Coloured Girls)07-Dec-87*HP-19*WI-23 - Under the Sun (& Coloured Girls)then came "So Much Water So Close to Home" in Aug 1989.

As the two (of the 4) Bobby's charted mainly in the early part of the 60's, album charts were not compiled until 1965, so the missed out. Although Mr. Vinton's second wind in the late 60's, early 70's did take one album into the charts.

Can someone provide the AMR Chart run for Cliff Richard's Private Collection. It appears to have entered the AMR Chart in mid-May 1988 and peaked at #22 (with 34 weeks in total).

However, curiously, on ARIA its debut is not until late November. Its peak here is #10 apparently and its total weeks are 25.

I can't reconcile how it could have such a gap - 6 months - between the AMR debut and the ARIA debut. Surely if ARIA's album chart commenced week ending 27 June 1988 (just six weeks after the AMR debut) it would have charted immediatel?

11-Mar-74*HP-21*WI-13 - Rock and Roll (I Gave You The Best Years of My Life)09-Aug-76*HP-35*WI-19 - Man of the 20th Century13-Nov-78*HP-92*WI-07 - Journeys26-Nov-79*HP-100*WI-1 - The Best of06-Apr-81*HP-72*WI-11 - Night Rider

rewardMan, The Private Collection for Cliff Richard did have an entry date of May 1989, but it charted down low in the Top 100 for a couple of weeks, then it re-entered late October, entering the Top 50 in November. AMR chart info does not include re-entries (unless they're years apart) and are amalgamations of their chart run. The AMR used collated information from stores on a points system (1 to 5, five being high-end sales), whereas ARIA used actual sales information, thus getting different information from different sources, which is why some things vary because of shop-people's tastes (the ones reporting to AMR), as opposed to the public's buying habits.

It's a shame that the two charts were different lengths. Presumably there were several weeks when the album charted between 51 and 100 on AMR when it was outside the ARIA Top 50.

If the AMR weeks outside the 50 could be added to the list it would be interesting to see how many were added to the 25 weeks attained on the ARIA Chart (Top 50 only).

One further point - I note that no ARIA Chart was published over Christmas and New Year 1989/90. Doesn't this mean in effect that albums in the chart immediately prior to Christmas and the week after the New Year are denied two weeks on the chart? Surely two weeks should be added to such albums' chart runs for the record book.

This is the methodology of the Guiness Book Of Hits and makes perfect sense to me.

can you confirm that Remember Me by Cliff peaked at #6 on ARIA with 13 weeks on?

can you also tell me if there was any overlap in tha chart runs of Always Guaranteed by Cliff - i.e. it started its chart life on AMR 26 Oct. 87 - did it have any appearance on ARIA from late June 88? The stats I have say it peaked at #6 and spent 36 weeks on the chart. What say you, please?

g'day, thanks bulion. i can't believe tim buckley never charted with any of he's amazing albums, oh well least we have the beauty of hindsight and can still buy his records and enjoy them. cheers again

g'day, thanks again bulion, great to see the allman brothers band hit the charts with a couple of albums. didn't expect the international submarine band to chart , even usa was guilty of missing the beat with gram parson's works. cheers

thanks bulion my dad was wrapped with that info, but couldn't believe thier fisrt two lp's didn't chart here. i figure our great land down under took a couple of years ( also judging by the allman brothers bands chart history) for us to trigger on to southern rock. and a bit into the future, look, southern rockers kings of leon rule the roost, funny hey

g'day, did any of these proto-psychedelic bands make an impression on the oz lp charts : The Count Five, ? & The Mysterians and Strawberry Alarm Clock; and also folkies The Association if possilbe. cheers.

I'm after charting albums for The Sports (already got singles from sister page) and both albums and singles for Stephen Cummings. Already got his single & album from ARIA charts by using search engine above.

23-Nov-79*HP-57*WI-11 - Q: Are We Not Men" A: We Are Devo!25-Jun-79*HP-51*WI-12 - Duty Now for the Future02-Jun-80*HP-05*WI-63 - Freedom of Choice31-Aug-81*HP-02*WI-27 - Dev-O Live (Mini LP)21-Sep-81*HP-03*WI-30 - New Traditionalists29-Nov-82*HP-57*WI-08 - Oh, No! It's Devo24-Nov-86*HP-84*WI-03 - Best of Devo Volume 1

25-Feb-74*HP-14*WI-47 - Silverbird18-Nov-74*HP-03*WI-69 - Just a Boy15-Sep-75*HP-03*WI-25 - Another Year22-Nov-76*HP-07*WI-54 - Endless Flight31-Oct-77*HP-08*WI-19 - Thunder in My Heart28-Aug-78*HP-08*WI-15 - Leo Sayer04-Jun-79*HP-01*WI-38 - The Very Best of (1 week at No.1)26-Nov-79*HP-65*WI-10 - Here06-Oct-80*HP-12*WI-21 - Living in a Fantasy14-Jun-82*HP-14*WI-23 - World Radio12-Dec-83*HP-20*WI-17 - Have You Ever Been in Love15-Aug-85*HP-60*WI-05 - Moonlighting

On the pre-1989 album chart positions page, Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd is listed as having spent 142 weeks on the chart. The album was re-released in 1993 and spent 26 weeks in the top 50. Is the 142 weeks a cumulative total of both of these results or not?

26-May-75*HP-84*WI-08 - That's the Way of the World01-May-78*HP-21*WI-28 - All N' All25-Dec-78*HP-07*WI-32 - The Best of Volume 102-July-79*HP-12*WI-18 - I Am17-Nov-80*HP-55*WI-08 - Faces18-Jan-82*HP-37*WI-16 - Raise28-Mar-83*HP-82*WI-04 - Powerlight

I'm now after singles and albums by ex-The Masters Apprentices (aside: I already have theirs) frontman Jim Keays also under the guises of, Jim Keays' Southern Cross (not to be confused with the similarly named Canadian metal band), Jim Keays Band, Keays and as the trio Cotton Keays & Morris.

18-Feb-74*HP-38*WI-20 - The Joker05-July-76*HP-25*WI-57 - Fly Like an Eagle20-Jun-77*HP-06*WI-27 - Book of Dreams22-Jan-79*HP-42*WI-14 - Greatest Hits 1974-7814-Dec-81*HP-48*WI-11- Circle of Love02-Aug-82*HP-05*WI-20 - Abracadabra13-Jun-83*HP-74*WI-06 - Live!23-Feb-87*HP-34*WI-12 - Living in the 20th Century

Def Leppard;

04-Aug-80*HP-98*WI-02 - On Through the Night13-Jun-83*HP-70*WI-17 - Pyromania21-Sep-87*HP-04*WI-103- Hysteria

Labelle:

14-Apr-75*HP-15*WI-44 - Nightbirds17-Nov-75*HP-52*WI-12 - Phoenix

Otis Redding:

20-July-68*HP-08*WI-03 - The Dock of the Bay10-Aug-68*HP-09*WI-04 - Otis Blue

31-Jan-77*HP-26*Wi-40 - Take the Heat off Me22-Aug-77*HP-27*WI-16 - Love for Sale24-July-78*HP-07*WI-41 - Night Flight to Venus29-Oct-79*HP-21*WI-16 - Oceans of Fantasy26-May-80*HP-03*WI-22 - The Magic of Boney M19-Dec-83*HP-53*WI-13 - Christmas Album15-Dec-86*HP-30*WI-10 - The Very Best of

G'day, thanks again for The Honeycombs info bulion. Anyway how did these two R&B legends fair in the lp charts; Wilson Pickett and The Temptations. Also if possible Sonny & Cher and Weather Report, cheers Last edited: 30/12/2009 06:39

Glad to see a Fairport Convention lp chart and a few Jeff Beck albums also. Didn't think some of the more obscure artists' would chart though, they didn't fair that well in thier respective homelands either.

compilation albums,the clap of the music industry.looked allright when you brought it home,but....what happened next?as lennon would say,ANYROAD,what is the longest duation in your top ten for an album?i know ''brothers in arms'' would have to be up in the listing.thankya.

compilation albums,the clap of the music industry.looked allright when you brought it home,but....what happened next?as lennon would say,ANYROAD,what is the longest duation in your top ten for an album?i know ''brothers in arms'' would have to be up in the listing.thankya.

How many weeks did Whitney Houston spend in the top 100 for her first two albums in the 1980s? Also, I know it's a pre-1989 thread, but is it possible to get the number of weeks her albums in the 1990s and 2000s spent in the top 100? (Mostly "My Love Is Your Love", as it only spent 2 weeks in the top 50, and I'm curious as to how many weeks it spent below that.) I ask because there's no readily available archive for below top 100 positions throughout the 1990s.